Mad Magazine Letter Pages
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| ARTIST | LETTER TITLE | IMAGE DESCRIPTION | ISSUE / DATE |
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| Sergio Aragones | The Shadow Knows | Bonus panel of Aragones shaking the money out of publisher Bill Gaines | 184 - Jul 1976 |
| Sergio Aragones | A Mad Look at King Kong | Self-caricature of Aragones about to be crushed under King Kong's foot in response to reader hoping "we haven't seen the last of Aragones's 'Kong'" | 194 - Oct 1977 |
| Sergio Aragones | Drawing Praise | Aragones draws Mort Drucker and himself winning the National Cartoonist's Society Reuben Award | 275 - Dec 1987 |
| Dave Berg | Lighter Side of Gardening | Berg draws himself with a "Berg's Eye View" shirt (eyes peer from below a manhole cover) - reader says you never know where he'll "sprout up" (original caricature appeared in Cartoonists PROfiles #28 - Dec. '75) |
180 - Jan 1976 |
| Dave Berg | The Game of the Name | Berg covers the topic of his Lighter Side feature with "Guess What?" responding to reader's challenge to read the strips before guessing the topic title | 211 - Dec 1979 |
| Dave Berg | Explaining Dave Berg | Berg makes the cover of GQ Magazine - "'Lighter Side' Fashion: Berg Takes a Bold Bite!" (image borrowed from Lighter Side in #259) |
283 - Dec 1988 |
| Dave Berg | Crazy About Mad | #281 Lighter Side image recycled with altered word balloon to play on reader's suspected paranoid schizophrenia | 285 - Mar 1989 |
| Dave Berg | Mad or Bust | Altered Lighter Side images show a big busted Berg with his doctor after reader complains about how women are usually depicted | 289 - Sep 1989 |
| Dave Berg | Toupee or Not Toupee | In response to reader wanting more articles about wigs, editors reply with an altered #296 Lighter Side image showing a bald Berg as new Hair Club for Men member | 303 - Jun 1991 |
| Dave Berg | Friend of Wildlife? | 2nd instance of recycling the #296 image - play on reader's view that Mad is anti-hunting, anti-trapping | 305 - Sep 1991 |
| Dave Berg | There's a Soccer Born Every Minute | 3rd instance of recycling the #296 image - Berg's head replaced with soccer ball after reader wants more soccer references | 310 - Apr 1992 |
| Dave Berg | Wrestling With a Ripoff | "Killer Kaputnik" - another Mad-inspired grappler | 316 - Jan 1993 |
| Dave Berg | Random Shots | 4th instance of recycling the #296 image - Berg's covered in buckshot after reader complains about school/gun issue | 318 - Apr 1993 |
| Dave Berg | All's Fair In Love and Berg | 5th instance of recycling the #296 image - movie love-scene "torrid-ness" question causes an editorial word balloon rewrite | 321 - Sep 1993 |
| Dave Berg | Paging Doctor Neuman | Altered #292 image in the same "Oh My God!" word balloon referring to reader's Dr. Thannoli | 349 - Sep 1996 |
| Dave Berg | It Must've Been Old-Timers Day | Altered #334 image in the same "Oh My God!" word balloon cites reader's observation that Dave Berg plays baseball for the Florida Marlins | 376 - Dec 1998 |
| Dave Berg | Pipe a Personality | In response to a reader noting Berg says he doesn't smoke but has a pipe in his mouth in #388's Lighter Side, editors offer a "cut and paste" panel to make the point obvious | 391 - Mar 2000 |
| Dave Berg | Not 'N Sync | Word balloon added to show office staff singing in 5-part harmony | 393 - May 2000 |
| John Caldwell | John Caldwell: The Gifted One | Drawing proves a person can burp, fart and sneeze simultaneously | 428 - Apr 2003 |
| John Caldwell | The Big Pledger | "Porta-potty bathroom attendant" is the readers' choice to keep a fellow reader out of the teaching profession | 458 - Oct 2005 |
| John Caldwell | The Best of the Breast | Reader says Mad missed the "triple nipple" in #500's Man Boobs article, but Caldwell had it all along | 501 - Oct 2009 |
| Bob Clarke | Whatever Became Of...? | Clarke ages The Fonz (Henry Winkler) | 187 - Dec 1976 |
| Bob Clarke | Mad Peek At Car Rental Companies | Running back, O.J. Simpson, leaps over Clarke's car | 189 - Mar 1977 |
| Bob Clarke | Ransom Note Cover | Self-portrait of Clarke being held hostage in reference to his Alfred cover on #191 | 193 - Sep 1977 |
| Paul Coker | Horrifying Cliches | Reader requests Coker "Deleteting an Expletive!" | 172 - Jan 1975 |
| Paul Coker | Unweddings of the Future | An "Unwedding" cake with feuding bride and groom | 185 - Sep 1976 |
| Paul Coker | Mad's Christmas Carols for 1976 | Coker presents his President-Elect Santa Christmas card | 190 - Apr 1977 |
| Paul Coker | Mad Salutes The Turtle | Turtle as mail carrier | 211 - Dec 1979 |
| Jack Davis | Mad's College Football Coach | Coach Hades headed for Midweatern U.? | 177 - Sep 1975 |
| Jack Davis | Ain't It "Gaines"... | Reader thinks it's great that "a dirty, fat hair slob" had published Mad for 32 years - Gaines with sandwich (original caricature appeared in Cartoonists PROfiles #28 - Dec. '75) | 253 - Mar 1985 |
| Dick DeBartolo | The Face is...Familiar? | DeBartolo was enlisted to draw a reader's face because all the artists were busy | 339 - Sep 1995 |
| Mort Drucker | In Good Hands | Drucker draws actor Ed Reimers from the All State Insurance TV ad | 52 - Jan 1960 |
| Mort Drucker | The Envelope Please... | Drucker provides a self-caricature to mark winning the National Cartoonist's Society's Reuben Award | 266 - Oct 1986 |
| Mark Fredrickson | What, Me Wordy? | Alternate cover for #450: "There's no letter from that schmuck, Joe Fonseca of Kitchener, Ontario in this issue!" is printed over Alfred's ass | 455 - Jul 2005 |
| Al Jaffee | Mad Game of Basebrawl | Self-caricatured Jaffee strapped to home plate with runners coming | 169 - Sep 1974 |
| Al Jaffee | Mad Solutions to Doggie-Do Problems | Role reversal: Dog holds leash to Jaffee's collar, takes Jaffee to bathroom | 174 - Apr 1975 |
| Al Jaffee | Smoker Vs. Non-Smoker Devices | "Warning: Jaffee determined to be dangerous to smokers!" - from a cigarette smoldering in an ashtray, Jaffee's head appears out of the smoke | 179 - Dec 1975 |
| Al Jaffee | Future "No-Frills Air Travel" Gimmicks | "No-Frills" nightmare: Jaffee as stewardess | 181 - Mar 1976 |
| Al Jaffee | More Mad E.S.P.??? | Seeing how real airplane barf bags are showing ads, reader recalls #179's "Future 'No-Frills Air Travel' Gimmicks" - Jaffee tries one out | 226 - Oct 1981 |
| Al Jaffee | Al Jaffee's Birthday! | Jaffee draws a thank you card to readers noting his 90th | 510 - Aug 2011 |
| Peter Kuper | The Drawing Bored | Kuper provides a style guide for black and white Spy facial expressions: "Morose, Wistful, Giddy, Pensive, Coquettish, and Flabbergasted" | 445 - Sep 2004 |
| Jacob Lambert | Drawing's Attention | Lambert illustrates reader's mother saying "Your legs aren't broken." | 518 - Dec 2012 |
| Don Martin | Don Martin's Pronouncement | Martin helps a reader pronounce the word "Fonebone" | 151 - Jun 1972 |
| Don Martin | Yecch | In a Martin drawing, the creature Yecch from the #164 article, Lou Silverstone and Martin take a bow | 166 - Apr 1974 |
| Don Martin | Don Martin Cover | Follow-up to #165's cover: "One Minute Later on the Same Highway" |
167 - Jun 1974 |
| Don Martin | Martin Looks at The Lone Ranger | Silver outranges The Lone Ranger in Martin sketch | 219 - Dec 1980 |
| Norman Mingo | Bicentennial "Madde" Super Special #19 | Alfred takes a "Madde" bow | 185 - Sep 1976 |
| Harry North | The Omenous | North depicts an innocent looking Damien riding on President Jimmy Carter's shoulders | 191 - Jun 1977 |
| Paul Peter Porges | Disaster Magazine | Porges idea of a real disaster is his ink well toppling onto his artwork | 186 - Oct 1976 |
| Tom Richmond | A Draw Deal | Richmond turns readers "Bob" character into a saucepan | 470 - Oct 2006 |
| Jack Rickard | Sorry State U.S.A. Phone Book | While drawing the back cover for #185, we see Rickard's hang-up about phones taking on lives of their own | 187 - Dec 1976 |
| Jack Rickard | Mad Star Trek Musical Cover | "Alfred E. Vulcan" enshrined in Trekdom! | 188 - Jan 1977 |
| Jack Rickard | Cover Charge | Kate Jackson gets an Alfred mouth | 195 - Dec 1977 |
| Angelo Torres | Future Shocked | Word balloon changed in panel from #255's The Clodsby Show to goof on reader from Decatur, Indiana | 501 - Oct 2009 |
| Sam Viviano | Titanic Fanatics | "Jose and Daryl -- You're the schmucks of the world!" - Word balloon changed to address dumb letter writers | 373 - Sep 1998 |
| George Woodbridge | The Carterbury Tales | First Lady Rosalynn Carter gets her panel and a reader-provided verse | 208 - Jul 1979 |
| Bill Wray / Peter Kuper |
Monroe Doctorin' | Monroe's mother hits on the Black Spy | 364 - Dec 1997 |
| Bill Wray | Hair Apparent | Jennifer Aniston, Leonardo DiCaprio and Michael Jordan get Monroe dreds | 373 - Sep 1998 |
Compiled by John R. Racano / Descriptions by Doug Gilford
John Caldwell: The Gifted One - from 428 - April 2003